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The Ramona Sheriff’s Department Substation is escalating its response to the homeless population living in Santa Maria Creek encampments by arresting nine people on charges of trespassing.

The arrests took place early in the morning on Thursday, March 8.

Ramona Detective Sgt. Robert Samuels said deputies went to the main encampment under the 10th Street bridge at about 6:30 a.m. In addition to arresting nine people on suspicion of trespassing, they also located illegal narcotics on one of the suspects.

Samuels said oftentimes the people being contacted and arrested in the encampments represent a criminal element in the community. He added that some of them...

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